The few stats I've come across regarding spam 'success' suggests that if they get more than a dozen responses (excluding the fools who actually send back "Take me off your list") per one million emails they're having a good day.
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This implies that there are, maybe, all of 10,000 suckers who keep every spammer on the planet in business. If we find them and cut them off, spam response would drop to about 1 per billion and there's just no way they could make any money off of that.
Shit, man, I can watch the evening news and get more violence than the an average game of UT 2003. For instance, I have yet to see a Half-Life Counter Strike mission that results in the deaths of 116 hostages!
He did. Went up against Lessig and made an ass of himself. Spent half the debate ingratiating himself with certain members fo the audience. The man honestly thinks that he's been proven correct regarding his 20-year old statement about VCR's being the death of the entertainment industry. Every IP/DMCA/Copyright horror story Lessig brought up was either ignored or dismissed as trivial.
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If I'm not mistaken, an EMP induces a large charge onto any kind of conductive surface. Tesla would probably have loved the idea as a way to transmit power, but it's kind of destructive to any modern electronics, with the charge frying delicate circuitry. A Faraday Cage will shield against it, though; the charge accumulates on the outer surface but penetrates no further.
Scary factoid: Half a dozen high-end nukes detonated in LEO at various points over North America would, without directly killing anyone, put out enough of an EMP to send the whole continent back into the stone age.
The best shielding is the kind you measure with a yardstick, not a Gauss meter. EM shielding won't help against uncharged particles, high-energy photons (e.g., gamma), or really souped-up cosmic rays. It would probably be very useful for keeping clear of space garbage, but even then you'd need a nuclear power source. And we can all imagine how well the public (American, at least) would react to that. Nukes are bad, m'kay?
Third-body perturbations? Anything too big to capture that comes by them would tend to remove the clutter. The Earth-Moon and Earth-Sun systems aren't anything like, say, Jupiter's. Now there's a junkyard!
Read up on Lagrange points. In a two body system, there are 5 of these points, their positions dictated by the relative masses of the bodies, where the gravitaional interactions do funny things to the net gravitional pull. L4 and L5 are kinda funny in that stuff that finds their way in is more likely to stay put than at L1 L2 and L3. In fact, for the Earth-Moon system, an orbit at L1 or L2 becomes unstable after about 3 weeks.
Uh, it's a 100 meter asteroid. Not an extinction-level event waiting to happen. You'd need at least a couple kilometers to do that. This thing could only do damage if it landed smack dab in the middle of a city.
Either that or tow a nice metal-bearing asteroid into orbit and start mining it. You don't need highly refined materials for shielding. Pretty much anything would do (water, lunar regolith, etc) so long as it's thick enough.
It most certainly does! The center of mass of the elevator has to be at geosynchronous orbit. You can accomplish this either by simply building it twice as long as it needs to be or by sticking some large mass on the space-end of the thing.
and it isn't that heavy either, less than a thousand tons, depending on the structure.
Everything I've read says that 5000-10000 tons would be the absolute minimum. That's assuming a carbon nanotube cable with a earth-end surface area measured in square millimeters. It goes up very quickly from there. And the closer the countermass is to GEO, the bigger it's gotta be.
Oh, and nobody modded me up. Cowboy Neal loves me so much (even more than hot grits!) and so everything I say here on/. automagically ends up at 2.
I think it has to be a bit larger. A space elevator has an awful lot of mass to it. A 100 meter asteroid wouldn't do that much good as a counterweight. Let's see, 50m radius -> 525,000 cubic meters internal volume. Assume it's a fairly heavy rock, say, 5 g/cm^3. That equates to 5 metric tons per cubic meter, or slightly over 2.6 million tons for the whole thing. I think that to be able to put the counterweight near GEO, it has to be on the order of billions of tons. Plenty of those out there, though.
And in fact, they do exactly that for patents. What the hell is so special about copyrights that they need to last for 70 to 190 years (max human lifespan of 120 years + 70 years copyright)?
"refuses to resist"? Come on, this is slashdot, one of the most Microsoft-hostile communities around.
Let's see. Anti-Microsoft rants on Slashdot on the one hand; on the other, millions of dollars spent on FUD campaigns, threats and bribes to politicians worldwide, blatant lying from company officials about relative levels of security and reliability (combined with internal memos about how much better The Enemy's software is), prosecuting people who point out mistakes, shutting down anyone who dares to alter a product they paid for, etc, etc, etc. Yes, those OSS developers are certainly in the same league as Bill.
Bear in mind that about the only action taken by the OSS crowd 'against' a giant like Microsoft, and about the only action a bazaar could take, is to steadily improve their product and public awareness of same. Compare that to MS, whose lawyers cry foul every time someone points out a flaw in one of their products. The GPL reads like the Golden Rule. Microsoft EULA's are a few steps away from demanding your firstborn child.
If you swallow it, you're in big trouble when it turns into gas in your stomach and expands to many many times its original volume, inflating you like a party balloon.
So... _theoretically_, burping (either repeatedly or just in one long sustained belch) immediately after swallowing LN2 would save you some major discomfort?
I still have to crank up IE every now and then because someone designed a webpage that Opera (and likely every other browser in existence) can't handle. Can I sue them too since they are not catering to my special needs and forcing me to utilize some other means that is cumbersome, time consuming, and comparatively dangerous? After all, "people who don't/can't use IE" is probably a demographic comparable in size to the "visually impaired who use readers" one.
Much of the world ocean is fairly uninhabited, microbiologically speaking. Iron plays a large aprt in plankton growth and most of the planet is very poor in it. Experiments have been performed with pumping large quantities of iron sulfate into one of these dead zones. The ensuing microbial bloom was impressive, especially considering the quantities of CO2 that it could suck up. But it's not yet certain that this sort of thing would work on a large scale.
That is definitely the most insane thing about copyrights. How does giving control of the copyright to the dead producer's heirs inspire them to create? They didn't do a thing except tag along for a lucrative ride. And what happens if a copyright is held by a corporation, which is essentially immortal?
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This implies that there are, maybe, all of 10,000 suckers who keep every spammer on the planet in business. If we find them and cut them off, spam response would drop to about 1 per billion and there's just no way they could make any money off of that.
Shit, man, I can watch the evening news and get more violence than the an average game of UT 2003. For instance, I have yet to see a Half-Life Counter Strike mission that results in the deaths of 116 hostages!
He did. Went up against Lessig and made an ass of himself. Spent half the debate ingratiating himself with certain members fo the audience. The man honestly thinks that he's been proven correct regarding his 20-year old statement about VCR's being the death of the entertainment industry. Every IP/DMCA/Copyright horror story Lessig brought up was either ignored or dismissed as trivial.
Scary factoid: Half a dozen high-end nukes detonated in LEO at various points over North America would, without directly killing anyone, put out enough of an EMP to send the whole continent back into the stone age.
The best shielding is the kind you measure with a yardstick, not a Gauss meter. EM shielding won't help against uncharged particles, high-energy photons (e.g., gamma), or really souped-up cosmic rays. It would probably be very useful for keeping clear of space garbage, but even then you'd need a nuclear power source. And we can all imagine how well the public (American, at least) would react to that. Nukes are bad, m'kay?
Third-body perturbations? Anything too big to capture that comes by them would tend to remove the clutter. The Earth-Moon and Earth-Sun systems aren't anything like, say, Jupiter's. Now there's a junkyard!
Read up on Lagrange points. In a two body system, there are 5 of these points, their positions dictated by the relative masses of the bodies, where the gravitaional interactions do funny things to the net gravitional pull. L4 and L5 are kinda funny in that stuff that finds their way in is more likely to stay put than at L1 L2 and L3. In fact, for the Earth-Moon system, an orbit at L1 or L2 becomes unstable after about 3 weeks.
Uh, it's a 100 meter asteroid. Not an extinction-level event waiting to happen. You'd need at least a couple kilometers to do that. This thing could only do damage if it landed smack dab in the middle of a city.
Either that or tow a nice metal-bearing asteroid into orbit and start mining it. You don't need highly refined materials for shielding. Pretty much anything would do (water, lunar regolith, etc) so long as it's thick enough.
It most certainly does! The center of mass of the elevator has to be at geosynchronous orbit. You can accomplish this either by simply building it twice as long as it needs to be or by sticking some large mass on the space-end of the thing.
and it isn't that heavy either, less than a thousand tons, depending on the structure.
Everything I've read says that 5000-10000 tons would be the absolute minimum. That's assuming a carbon nanotube cable with a earth-end surface area measured in square millimeters. It goes up very quickly from there. And the closer the countermass is to GEO, the bigger it's gotta be.
Oh, and nobody modded me up. Cowboy Neal loves me so much (even more than hot grits!) and so everything I say here on /. automagically ends up at 2.
Ok, _no way_ a 2 or 3 million ton rock would affect our tides to any noticable degree. We have buildings that mass that much.
I think it has to be a bit larger. A space elevator has an awful lot of mass to it. A 100 meter asteroid wouldn't do that much good as a counterweight. Let's see, 50m radius -> 525,000 cubic meters internal volume. Assume it's a fairly heavy rock, say, 5 g/cm^3. That equates to 5 metric tons per cubic meter, or slightly over 2.6 million tons for the whole thing. I think that to be able to put the counterweight near GEO, it has to be on the order of billions of tons. Plenty of those out there, though.
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I noticed that. Man, those guys take absolutely no shit from anyone in their courtroom!
And in fact, they do exactly that for patents. What the hell is so special about copyrights that they need to last for 70 to 190 years (max human lifespan of 120 years + 70 years copyright)?
Let's see. Anti-Microsoft rants on Slashdot on the one hand; on the other, millions of dollars spent on FUD campaigns, threats and bribes to politicians worldwide, blatant lying from company officials about relative levels of security and reliability (combined with internal memos about how much better The Enemy's software is), prosecuting people who point out mistakes, shutting down anyone who dares to alter a product they paid for, etc, etc, etc. Yes, those OSS developers are certainly in the same league as Bill.
Bear in mind that about the only action taken by the OSS crowd 'against' a giant like Microsoft, and about the only action a bazaar could take, is to steadily improve their product and public awareness of same. Compare that to MS, whose lawyers cry foul every time someone points out a flaw in one of their products. The GPL reads like the Golden Rule. Microsoft EULA's are a few steps away from demanding your firstborn child.
Shit, man, that was how I toilet trained my cat! He had to choose between the pot and the powdered XBox and that was all there was to it.
Something like this? _Very_ cool looking. I'm curious, to what degree does the sound bouncing off the far end affect the flames?
So... _theoretically_, burping (either repeatedly or just in one long sustained belch) immediately after swallowing LN2 would save you some major discomfort?
I'm as annoyed by all-Flash sites as anyone, but the absolute last thing we need is yet another inane law dictating what you can put on your webpage.
I still have to crank up IE every now and then because someone designed a webpage that Opera (and likely every other browser in existence) can't handle. Can I sue them too since they are not catering to my special needs and forcing me to utilize some other means that is cumbersome, time consuming, and comparatively dangerous? After all, "people who don't/can't use IE" is probably a demographic comparable in size to the "visually impaired who use readers" one.
Bear in mind it's perpetual only as long as you have skin left to splash that hot coffee on.
Much of the world ocean is fairly uninhabited, microbiologically speaking. Iron plays a large aprt in plankton growth and most of the planet is very poor in it. Experiments have been performed with pumping large quantities of iron sulfate into one of these dead zones. The ensuing microbial bloom was impressive, especially considering the quantities of CO2 that it could suck up. But it's not yet certain that this sort of thing would work on a large scale.
That is definitely the most insane thing about copyrights. How does giving control of the copyright to the dead producer's heirs inspire them to create? They didn't do a thing except tag along for a lucrative ride. And what happens if a copyright is held by a corporation, which is essentially immortal?
Well sure, but you see, we want images, not just image tags. :)